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I welcome the fact that the staff who are quite near the bottom of the food chain as far as income levels are concerned will have proper investment put into their futures. I hope that that will give them a better future as well as giving customers better service.
I am sure that the minister is aware of the necessity of effective information technology in ensuring patient safety and improving patient care, especially when care is provided at various sites. Can he assure me that the appropriate technology to ensure that will be in place when the new ambulatory care facilities open at the Victoria infirmary and Stobhil...
Minor injury units would be provided in all five acute sites and a system of streaming patients would ensure that patients with minor injuries did not have to wait beside people who had suffered major trauma, such as road accident victims.
The needs of multinational industries in the aquaculture sector are quite different from those in the indigenously owned sector, if I can call it that, who want bigger sites and better regulation. That is what we are working with that sector of the industry to procure through the framework strategy.
Does the minister agree that the national health service in Forth valley would find it easier to offer consultants new contracts if Forth Valley NHS Board took at this month's meeting a firm decision to build a new hospital on the site of the Royal Scottish national hospital at Larbert?
Does he think it right in those circumstances that officials of the company that run the plant can refuse to provide me—the elected member for the constituency in which the plant is sited—with key information about the plant on the ground that the information is commercially confidential?
The motion refers to that UK bill, the purpose of which is to allow MOD police officers, while travelling between MOD sites, to intervene as police officers in strictly defined emergencies, such as stopping acts of violence or saving lives.